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Most people can't afford a daily meal, but the wealthy 1% can dine on food that most can't afford in their wildest dreams. This is exactly the goal of the republicans.
It's a family tradition! Daddy Trump paid people to be in the infamous "golden escalator" crowd.yeah guys how is trump jr really wrong for paying people to pretend to like him for a publicity stunt orchestrated by his deranged dad? aren’t the bad guy actually the left? think about it
Got a link?Trump's inauguration guest list tells us something about his presidency
Confirmed so far
President Xi Jinping
Argentinean President Javier Milei
Italian Prime Minister Georgia Meloni
El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele
Viktor Orban
Eric Zemmour leader of the French Reconquête party
Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro
Not just one, it's from a couple of news sites and articles, BBC has a couple.Got a link?
Is that just the list of political leaders or are there any normal heads of state, etc... going as well?Not just one, it's from a couple of news sites and articles, BBC has a couple.
Ah, but they are not really poor people!TIL
Denmark has poor people!!!!!!!1111!!!!!1!11
What a ◊◊◊◊-hole, 3rd world country that place turned out to be.
So is the USA. And most other countries, though the gap between rich and poor is a lot worse in the US than it is in Europe.Denmark is literally allowing a population of people who can barely afford a daily meal, at the same time allowing an exclusive restaurant right across the street.
Nine of the top 10 countries [with the lowest wealth inequality] are located in Europe or on the Europe/Asia border (Azerbaijan). The top 1% of earners in Europe take only 12% of the total income and the bottom 50% of earners take 22% of income. For comparison, in the United States, which has more billionaires than any other country, the top 1% of earners take 20% of income and the bottom 50% of earners take 10%. The less inequality/greater equality in Europe is attributed to the fact that Europe has not let its market economy become a market society, where market forces control other areas of society such as education, health, and wages. Examples of this are social healthcare systems and more favorable labor markets.
My WAG conspiracy theory. Chinese and or Russian assets in Trump's team are behind it.I see a common thread through the Greenland, the Panama Canal and the "Gulf of America", the NATO 5% of GDP military spending and the tariffs/trade war with China nonsense, and it's this:
Reducing the Trade Deficit.
It's been a goal of Trump in his first term, one that he failed at spectacularly.
For it to work this time, the US has to export more and import less; the latter is being done with tariffs, the former requires shipping of oil an gas, which needs priority access to the Panama Canal and Gulf of Mexico at low cost for US exporters. Greenland is a possible source of more stuff to export, NATO defense spending will benefit US weapon manufacturers.
Trump, being a Mercantilist, wants to use US military power to make the failing US economy more competitive, which is the ultimate subsidy.
I think Trump thinks a nation is a company, and tries to run it like that. "Making deals" and the measure of success of a nation is how much money it makes. (That a nation might make money and spend it on the needs and comforts of its people will never, ever enter his head.)I see a common thread through the Greenland, the Panama Canal and the "Gulf of America", the NATO 5% of GDP military spending and the tariffs/trade war with China nonsense, and it's this:
Reducing the Trade Deficit.
It's been a goal of Trump in his first term, one that he failed at spectacularly.
For it to work this time, the US has to export more and import less; the latter is being done with tariffs, the former requires shipping of oil an gas, which needs priority access to the Panama Canal and Gulf of Mexico at low cost for US exporters. Greenland is a possible source of more stuff to export, NATO defense spending will benefit US weapon manufacturers.
Trump, being a Mercantilist, wants to use US military power to make the failing US economy more competitive, which is the ultimate subsidy.
Every accusation from them is a confession.So is the USA. And most other countries, though the gap between rich and poor is a lot worse in the US than it is in Europe.
Wealth Inequality by Country 2024
worldpopulationreview.com
Close.I think Trump thinks a nation is a company, and tries to run it like that. "Making deals" and the measure of success of a nation is how much money it makes. (That a nation might make money and spend it on the needs and comforts of its people will never, ever enter his head.)
And, based on his cabinet, etc. nominations, he appears to want to run the country as a privately-owned business.I think Trump thinks a nation is a company, and tries to run it like that. "Making deals" and the measure of success of a nation is how much money it makes. (That a nation might make money and spend it on the needs and comforts of its people will never, ever enter his head.)
I'd be very sceptical of such claims but I suppose the reason why they might seem plausible is because they're so "on brand" for MAGA.It may have been just a rumor (it's on TwiX, after all) but I saw some posts about federal employees having to sign a loyalty oath to the POSOTUS (-elect). It's not a stretch to consider that totally possible.
I am convinced the Trump /Musk bromance will be short lived, Both want to be the Alpha Dog and there can be only one.Okay, so it looks like Elon Musk is going to have an office in the White House Complex which just looks like a massive amount of influence for a non-elected yet powerful person.
I mean, remember how we heard how George Soros was some kind of hidden force behind the scenes, putting money into various groups who would then come up with some ideas in universities leading maybe to some kind of insidious brainwashing. Well, Elon Musk is just basically a super-charged version of that, an extremely conflicted individual essentially making policy while blasting out his views on foreign and domestic policy through social media.
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Enjoy your oligarchy, America.
Bannon called himself "Trump's Thomas Cromwell" back when he had a WHite House post. He sort of forgot what Henry the VIII finally did to Thomas Cromwell. Now he will learn.He is the Ernst Röhm of the MAGA movement.
I though that smelled funny. THat would be so blantnely unconstituional that even the currnet Supreme Court would turn thumbs down on it.I also find no reference to Trump putting tariffs on California. Not to say he wouldn't think it a grand idea but no news of it. Plenty of articles on how the tariffs he did propose will be especially hard on California, but that's something else. Trying to fact check rumors about Trump is getting a little Poe-like. Nothing is so preposterous that it can be dismissed without checking.
We shall see.One of the worst things about Trump and MAGA is they are empowring the more exteme left.....A number o
I am convinced the Trump /Musk bromance will be short lived, Both want to be the Alpha Dog and there can be only one.
And blame it on the democrats.I think Trump will crash the economy very quuickkly with this tariffs. which almost no economist, liberal or conservative, think are a good idea.
And he doesn't even know how to run a company, with repeated failures. He's never been a manager, just a boss.I think Trump thinks a nation is a company, and tries to run it like that. "Making deals" and the measure of success of a nation is how much money it makes. (That a nation might make money and spend it on the needs and comforts of its people will never, ever enter his head.)
If it wasn't for that stupid reality show, Donnie Diapers would be just another failure.And he doesn't even know how to run a company, with repeated failures. He's never been a manager, just a boss.
"Reality" show. Talk about life imitating art. If this was still a reality show they would have just cut the most idiotic bits, like renaming the Gulf of Mexico.If it wasn't for that stupid reality show, Donnie Diapers would be just another failure.
Cut out all the idiotic bits and there would have been no show at all. Even the "Trump helicopter" in the title shots was painted temporarily for the show."Reality" show. Talk about life imitating art. If this was still a reality show they would have just cut the most idiotic bits, like renaming the Gulf of Mexico.
Trump is basically a salesman, and standrad buiness wisdom is NEVER put somebody from sales/marketint in charge of a company.And he doesn't even know how to run a company, with repeated failures. He's never been a manager, just a boss.
Are we talking the arrested, charged, convicted, did his time, returned to society kind of DUI? Or are we talking the Ted Kennedy kind of DUI?
Doesn't matter. It's a DUI - that never rubs off. Once you have the taint, it sticks!Are we talking the arrested, charged, convicted, did his time, returned to society kind of DUI? Or are we talking the Ted Kennedy kind of DUI?